"What happened to you" Zoe asked loudly across the ED to Max completely discarding her conversation with Ethan.
"Duh psyche transfer" Max began sarcastically. Cal, who obviously overhead, began to make his way over to us.
"She freaked and we couldn't stop her" Robyn said getting Lily's attention as well.
"So where is she now" Cal asked calmly.
"I don't know" Robyn said back.
"Uh come on guys" Cal said annoyed as he began to walk off.
"It wasn't our fault" Robyn shouted to him.
"He doesn't mean it" Zoe said trying to resolve the argument.
"Is there anything I can do" Lily asked feeling bad for her misjudgement on Anna Steele.
"Yes, can you ask security to do a sweep please we need to find her" Zoe said as Max began to walk off.
"Hang on I need to look at that eye" Zoe said grabbing his arm her fingers tracing down it.
"I'll live" Max said casually, adamant to get away.
"Get back here you" Zoe said pulling him back and in line with her. She began touching his cheek bone and around his eye to see whether he had done any serious damage.
"I thought you wanted me to go to the pharmacy" Max asked her, a smirked tugging at his lips.
"I do" Zoe said back with a slight smirk on her face. She looked over Max's shoulder to see Anna's partner stood there.
"Robyn" Zoe whispered keeping her face in front of Max so that he wouldn't see what she was saying.
"What" Robyn questioned whispering back?
"I think that's Anna Steele's partner, could you take him to the relative room and buy us some time" Zoe whispered again.
"Yeah sure" Robyn whispered before going over to him.
"Do you think I'll go blind?" Max asked jokily.
"Not with that no" Zoe said smirking. Max walked off and rounded the corner and Zoe followed him. They rounded the corner out of view of all of the staff before Max stopped turning around and kissing her passionately, their hands travelling over each other's bodies.
"Nice to know you care" Max said smirking at Zoe.
"I don't but it's my job" Zoe said smirking back knowing what game he was playing.
"Oh thanks guess you don't want me coming over tonight then" he said turning around and beginning to walk away.
"Max" she said louder than she anticipated grabbing his arm to stop him going further.
"Yes" he said to her looking up and seeing a lot of the staff stood there watching the pair.
"You know I care" Zoe said smiling at him.
"So you still want me to come over tonight" he said looking at the staffs shocked faces. The lead consultant and a porter, never did they think this would happen.
"I don't even have to give that a second thought" Zoe said leaning up and kissing him passionately, their hands travelling over each other again.
"Oh my god" Robyn shouted causing Max and Zoe to pull apart. Zoe looked at Max with fear in her eyes, she couldn't have people know about her and Max she just couldn't. She turned around slowly to see all of the staff stood there smirking at her. She ran past them all to her office. She slammed the door shut as she got there, leaning against it.
"Are you alright?" she heard Connie say. She whipped her head around seeing Connie sat there looking at her.
"Yeah I'm fine" Zoe said sharply.
"I have a meeting with Guy but if you need me here" she began but I interrupted her before she could go any further.
"No it's fine we can cope" Zoe said to her calmly. Connie walked out of the office leaving Zoe with her thoughts.
"Zo" Max said coming into the office closing the door behind him.
"Did you know they were there" Zoe asked instantly. She could tell by the way he reacted that he did know.
"Why didn't you warn me or something Max, if Guy finds out I could lose my job" Zoe hissed at him.
"Sorry I didn't realise" he said to her. Max could sense that Zoe was pissed off and he knew when she got that angry that she cried, especially when she was worried as well.
"Come here" Max said going over to her and crouching down on the floor hugging her.
"I'm sorry" Zoe said into his shoulder.
"Where's the Zoe Hanna I know, the one who doesn't care what people think about her and doesn't worry about things" Max said pulling away and looking up at her. Zoe smiled at him grateful for his attempt to cheer her up. She leaned in and kissed him briefly as a thank you before getting up and pulling him with her and out of the door. She gripped his hand tighter as they got outside the door and had everyone's eyes on them.
"It will be fine I promise" Max whispered into her ear, kissing her forehead and letting go of her hand to carry on with his work. Zoe smiled as he left before making her way over to Tess.
"That was a complete shock" Tess said looking at Zoe.
"I know, it was for us too" Zoe said back to her.
"Are you happy?" Tess asked and Zoe smiled before answering.
"Yeah, the happiest I've been in a long time" she said smiling.
"Then that's all that matters" Tess said before they both carried on with their work.